No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.
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A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.Edward Steichen
Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.
Edward Steichen
Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.
Edward Steichen
You know... that a blank wall is an appalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum - a canvas - a piece of film - or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something - that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.
Edward Steichen
I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.
Edward Steichen
There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.
Edward Steichen
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